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Tax return is secret by law. TurboTax wants you to give up your privacy
- pinewurst 3y agohttps://archive.ph/E0XbU https://archive.ph/E0XbU
- black_13 3y agoActually it would be for the best if every tax return was public information
- LorenDB 3y agoThis ought to be illegal.
- sonicanatidae 3y agoI'm sure it is, but when they get fined 15 bucks, do you think they'll be dissuaded? In fact, they will embolden more to do the same, since the consequence is literally profits that outweigh the bullshit speed ticket level of fine.
- lupire 3y ago90% of the article is a nothing burger about the usual asking for data for advertising. (Guess who also does that? WaPo) The only interesting bit is the very last screenshot where they mix your officials filing signature with the unrelated consent button for data sharing, using non-grammar to hide the meaning of the button. This is not informed consent and so the advertising data use is illegal. Intuit is a criminal organization.
- xyst 3y agoTurboTax is littered with a number of dark patterns. Constantly using fear to upsell to another product. Misdirection.
- jncfhnb 3y agoThe WaPo does not ask for access to your tax return data
- sonicanatidae 3y agoBut their bribes are paid up, so they'll suffer no penalty. Quickbooks is a goddamn tragedy, yet people buy it every day. The user front end isn't bad, but what kind of morons can't write updates that work reliably? I'll tell you who, its the very same morons at Intuit! Source: Entirely too many years chasing bullshit because Intuit cannot write fucking updates to save their lives and have zero shits to give about it.
- bergie 3y agoTax info is more or less public in many Nordic countries. It helps to create a more equal society.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 3y agoIn Norway at least you do have to give up your own info to look up someone else’s info. A pretty good check on the ability IMO
- bravetraveler 3y agoCurious if one could participate in good faith once, then impersonate from that point forward Surely it could be untangled
- reaperman 3y agoCouldn't people with means just pay someone else to do the lookup for them?
- SOLAR_FIELDS 3y agoIm not Norwegian but perhaps someone from Norway can respond. Is there a cottage industry for this?
- esbranson 3y agoYou have to give up your privacy to even login to IRS.gov because to use ID.me one must: * Consent to the collection, use, and sharing of their personal information to third parties (i.e. data brokers). * Agree to binding arbitration and a waiver of class action rights. * Agree to limits on liability for any indirect, punitive, special, exemplary, incidental, or consequential damages. * Consent to arbitrary termination of the account at any time for any reason. Login.gov (https://login.gov/ https://login.gov/) is the obvious choice for a login service. Enough excuses.
- junar 3y agoMore context: https://www.tigta.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2023-10/20232S070fr.pdf https://www.tigta.gov/sites/default/files/reports/2023-10/20... https://www.id.me/privacy https://www.id.me/privacy https://www.id.me/terms https://www.id.me/terms
- mrlonglong 3y agoTax returns shouldn't be private at all. Nordic countries make them public and this keeps people honest.
- Red_Leaves_Flyy 3y agoMillionaires and billionaires everywhere, and their groupies, are clutching their pearls right now!
- wolverine876 3y agoPrivacy is important to protect people's liberty and is important in itself. I don't think it's worth throwing away. Lots of intimate information is on and can be derived from tax returns.
- mrlonglong 3y agoI disagree. It works in the Nordic countries. I haven't heard anyone from there bitching about it.
- southernplaces7 3y agoBy all means, try living in one of the numerous countries in the world where graft, extortion and outright criminal kidnapping of you and your family members are common occurrences and then declare that tax returns shouldn't be private or that financial privacy isn't more than just a silly little fixation. Aside from very good arguments for why people deserve financial privacy as much as many other types of privacy for all kinds of philosophical reasons, there are also very practical, life and property-protecting reasons for why any abrogation of this type of privacy should be very, very carefully qualified and measured before being applied. Also try remembering the other 99+% of the world's population that doesn't live in your Nordic paradise and won't live in anything like it for a long time to come. Their circumstances aren't something you can indulgently apply your ideas of what's "correct" so easily just because you think it works in a very small part of the world that has unusual conditions in its favor. Some people on this site truly seem to live in bubbles of armored plexiglass when it comes to resisting flexible thinking or wider considerations about anything different from what they experience. It's almost amusing.